Freejack (R)
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I originally had this review in science fiction, and later moved it to the "meh" section. But later still, when I created a dystopian section, I moved it there.

Okay. So this race car driver named Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez) is in a race, and his car explodes. And like a split-second before his death, he is grabbed by people 18 years in the future. In this somewhat dystopian future, it seems, sometimes rich people who are dying will pay millions of dollars to import "freejacks," people pulled out of the past at their moment of death. There's something called the "spiritual switchboard," in which a person's mind can be held for a few days after they die. Then a freejack's mind can be deleted, and the rich person's mind can be transferred to this new body. Freejacks are never supposed to wake up, never be aware of any of this, but Alex did wake up, and managed to escape. He was pursued by a guy named Victor Vacendak (Mick Jagger), who was working for the dead guy who wanted Alex's body. Alex manages to find his former girlfriend, Julie Redlund (Rene Russo), and she tries to help him. There are of course plot twists, involving her boss, Ian McCandless (Anthony Hopkins, about a year away from being Sir Anthony Hopkins), and the VP of McCandless's corporation, Mark Michelette. I don't really know what else to say, since I don't want to spoil anything. It wasn't a particularly good movie, but I'd been meaning to see it for a bunch of years, so it's nice to have finally seen it, and I didn't feel it was a complete waste of time. That's all.